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DeCare Systems Ireland Ltd is seeking a Senior Test & Support Engineer to join their software testing team in Cork, Ireland. The 6-month contract position involves providing leadership, guidance, and oversight to project teams on testing approaches and quality. Key responsibilities include creating and reviewing test plans, executing and reporting on tests, managing priorities, and taking ownership of support issues. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of system testing experience, expertise in test automation tools like Selenium, and strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

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Testing Senior Engenier

DeCare Systems Ireland Ltd is seeking a Senior Test & Support Engineer to join their software testing team in Cork, Ireland. The 6-month contract position involves providing leadership, guidance, and oversight to project teams on testing approaches and quality. Key responsibilities include creating and reviewing test plans, executing and reporting on tests, managing priorities, and taking ownership of support issues. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of system testing experience, expertise in test automation tools like Selenium, and strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

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Job Title

Senior Test & Support Engineer

Duration

6 months

Location

Cork, Ireland

Overview
DeCare Systems Ireland Ltd is one of the countrys largest software development organisations. Operating successfully
in Cork city for the last 15 years, DSI employ a wide range of technologies including Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows),
Java/J2EE (with Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat), Oracle 9i, Microsoft ASP and ASP.Net, C#, C++, and even
Cobol. DSI provide consultancy and leading edge software solutions for a wide variety of US, EU and UK based clients
in the insurance, healthcare, retail and public sector markets.
The Software Test function at DSI is to expand by creating a new role of 'Senior Software Test & Support Engineer' at
our development office in Cork. The role will involve the senior test engineer working closely with both the software
development teams and management to ensure that the company continues to deliver high quality software and
maintains the operation of existing production systems.
This role would be ideally suited to someone with a strong technical testing background and an interest in moving
towards a development role or some level of production support background, especially in a web based system.
The successful candidate will reports to a DSI project manager and in addition to the responsibilities of a Software Test
Engineer the following responsibilities will also apply:

Provide input and leadership to the project team as per best practice (estimating, designing, developing
and executing test procedures and test cases).
Provide guidance to the project team about functionality and quality in relation to the testing approach.
Report regularly on the test metrics and escalate issues as appropriate.
Review specification documents with the project team so that accurate and comprehensive test plans
can be created.
Ensure deployed software meets expectations and have frequent reviews with the project team on the
status and results of testing.
Be competent in the use of test automation and test tracking tools to maximise productivity during the
regression testing and performance testing phases of the project.
Recommend and develop improvements to the current testing process.
Manage priorities and set expectations when faced with multiple demanding tasks.
Take ownership over incoming support issues and where possible learn how to apply simple production
fixes or direct to the correct internal resource.
You may be required to work in excess of the normal working day to achieve a particular project
deadline
You may be required to perform additional duties, not listed above, to support the testing function into

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the future.
Skills and experience relevant to the position:

Ability to take ownership over problems and drive through to resolution.


Track record of achieving results and high standards.
Experience of working on different teams and different technologies with an ability to test across
multiple projects.
Demonstrated ability to work on own or as part of a team.

Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to work in small teams and individually,
managing your own time.
Desire to develop your own knowledge by keeping abreast of testing tools and techniques, attending
workshops and reviewing technical publications.
Experience in communicating directly with clients.

Technical Profile:

Must have 6+ cumulative years system-testing experience (not localisation) with particular emphasis on
web based testing.
Strong testing background expected with experience writing test plans and test procedures.
Experience with regression, integration and system level test execution.
Experience with test automation tools such as Visual Studio Team System (Test Edition), HP Quick Test
Professional, Selenium or similar tools.
Working knowledge of performance / load testing tools Visual Studio Team System (Test Edition) or
similar
Experience in the use of defect tracking tools.
Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Ability to understand how an application is architected and understanding of where to go looking for
issues
Experience in dealing with data and understanding of SQL would be highly beneficial.
Self-starter, proactive, with demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.

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